The Bette Davis Collection includes some of her most popular films, including the well-acted melodrams “The Letter,” “Dark Victory” and “Now, Voyager,” as well as later works, such as “The Star.”
Oscar Roles: Southern Belles–Prevalent Women Types (Mary Pickford, Bette Davis, Vivien Leigh)
December 28, 2005 by
The Southern belle is a uniquely American literary and cinematic type. Though over the past two decades, it has declined as a type, in the first decades of the Oscars, several women, such as Mary Pickford and Vivien Leigh, won awards or were nominated for playing southern belles.
